Knowledge management
The field of knowledge management keeps tripping over its shoelaces. The problem is that since we consider ourselves knowledgable, we all feel entitled to define KM as we please. Witness this delightful list of contradictory defintions from the experts in the field.
Among the useful observations:
- The modern term knowledge worker is a misnomer. Instead we need Thinkers, people who can perceive current limitations, detect emerging trends, anticipate possibilities and heuristically re-tool themselves for the opportunities of tomorrow.
- Knowledge Management is the ability to help oneself or others, strategically achieve goals, ambitions, objectives and life-time dreams.
- Knowledge comes alive in an organization when people learn to trust one another and seek out and build upon their capabilities and aspirations -- individually, across functions and with other companies.
- Knowledge management is an oxymoron and could run the course of a fad. Knowledge innovation is fundamentally sustaining a collaborative advantage for the excellence of an enterprise, the sustainability of a nation's economy and the advancement of society.
